{"id":494226,"date":"2022-09-19T05:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T05:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T02:39:03","slug":"john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"#John Durham&#8217;s final act: exposing the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240a3269574\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240a3269574\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi\/#%E2%80%9CJohn_Durhams_final_act_exposing_the_FBI%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;John Durham&#8217;s final act: exposing the FBI&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi\/#Failure_upon_failure\" >Failure upon failure<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-durhams-final-act-exposing-the-fbi\/#Deja_vu\" >D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJohn_Durhams_final_act_exposing_the_FBI%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;John Durham&#8217;s final act: exposing the FBI&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Russiagate special counsel John Durham is in the homestretch. His grand jury wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed up work last week, apparently with no new indictments on the horizon. Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland is said to anticipate receiving his final report by the end of the year. And Durham is gearing up for his last trial: the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the discredited Steele dossier.<\/p>\n<p>That last one should be grabbing our attention. We now know that the so-called dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was a Clinton campaign production. It is one of the great dirty tricks in modern political history: The 2016 Democratic presidential campaign colluded with the incumbent Democratic administration\u2019s law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus to portray their partisan opposition, Donald Trump, as a Kremlin mole, then made the smear stick to the point of forcing Trump to govern for over two years under the cloud of a special-counsel investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This enterprise included substantial reliance by the FBI on the bogus Steele dossier in obtaining spying authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) \u2014 on sworn representations that the bureau believed Trump was in a \u201cconspiracy of cooperation\u201d with Vladimir Putin\u2019s anti-American regime.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko turns out to have been Steele\u2019s principal source for this fever dream. Last year, Durham indicted him on five counts of lying to the FBI. But that\u2019s not the half of it. Last week, in a jaw-dropping court submission, Durham revealed that the FBI signed up Danchenko as an informant and paid him for almost three years \u2014 from March 2017 through October 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308811256002.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Igor Danchenko leaves Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-23912891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308811256002.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308811256002.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308811256002.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308811256002.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Igor Danchenko was the most important source for Christopher Steele\u2019s explosive allegations against former President Donald Trump.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Failure_upon_failure\"><\/span>Failure upon failure<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re keeping score, that would be throughout (a) most of the FISC-authorized surveillance; (b) the Mueller investigation, which somehow failed to detect \u2014 or at least to report \u2014 that Danchenko misled the bureau; and (c) Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s investigations of the FBI\u2019s misconduct in the Trump investigation \u2014 in the reports of which there is no indication that Horowitz was told Danchenko was on the bureau payroll and available to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more. Although Danchenko was the most important source for Steele\u2019s explosive allegations against Trump, the FBI did not interview him prior to using Steele\u2019s dossier in its first two sworn surveillance applications, in October 2016 and January 2017. When the bureau finally got around to questioning Danchenko \u2014 because it hadn\u2019t been able to corroborate Steele\u2019s claims despite relying on them in court \u2014 it learned that Steele appeared to have exaggerated and possibly fabricated rumors and innuendo about Trump that Danchenko was said to have passed along.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Yet, far from alerting the FISC judges that there was significant reason to disbelieve the information from Steele about Trump \u2014 who was by then the incumbent president \u2014 the FBI continued to rely on that suspect information in sworn surveillance applications in April and June 2017, based on which the FISC granted additional spying warrants.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s investigation indicates that Danchenko lied to the FBI multiple times, falsehoods that should have been easy for the nation\u2019s flagship federal investigative agency to run down. Yet they kept him on board, kept paying him.<\/p>\n<p>But it gets worse. While the bureau used inane, unverified information from Steele and Danchenko to suggest to a court that the president of the United States might be a Russian asset, the FBI had intelligence indicating that Danchenko himself might actually have been a Russian asset.<\/p>\n<p>That was detailed in yet another Durham court filing last week, in the Virginia federal court where Danchenko is soon scheduled to be tried. The prosecutor related that Danchenko was \u201cthe subject of an FBI counterintelligence from 2009 to 2011.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308799400913.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Igor Danchenko leaves Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-23912911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308799400913.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308799400913.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP21308799400913.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Durham\u2019s investigation indicates that Danchenko lied to the FBI multiple times.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why was the investigation closed? Did the FBI end up finding out that Danchenko was not really a Russian asset? Well, no. In fact, reports from its investigation claim that in 2008, when he was working at the Brookings Institution (a center-left Washington think-tank), Danchenko offered to pay two of his fellow researchers for classified information if they got jobs in the incoming Obama administration. There is no indication anything came of this, but upon being tipped off, the bureau did some digging and learned that Danchenko had been in contact with people it was investigating as possible Russian intelligence officers.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened? Unbelievably, Durham now explains that the counterintelligence investigation was closed because \u201cthe FBI incorrectly believed that the [Danchenko] had left the \u00adcountry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yup, you read that correctly.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Deja_vu\"><\/span>D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Durham\u2019s investigation suffered a significant setback in the spring when a Washington, DC, jury acquitted Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann. Durham\u2019s prosecutors presented abundant evidence that Sussmann had falsely told the FBI that he was not working for the Clinton campaign when he peddled spurious information about a supposed Trump-Putin communications back-channel. But the prosecutors curiously portrayed the FBI as the victim of Sussmann\u2019s machinations when the proof suggested that the bureau was not fooled at all \u2014 and seemed more like a willing participant in building the Trump\/Russia political narrative.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP22136457807278.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Special counsel John Durham the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, Monday, May 16, 2022, in Washington. \" class=\"wp-image-23912929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP22136457807278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP22136457807278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP22136457807278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/AP22136457807278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Durham revealed that the FBI signed up Danchenko as an informant and paid him for almost three years.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Could Durham run into the same problem in prosecuting Danchenko? Could be. After all, Danchenko, like Sussmann, is charged with lying to the FBI, and a jury may once again be left to wonder whether the bureau was actually fooled.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, these prosecutions are secondary to the vital story: What role did the FBI, whether by misfeasance or malfeasance, play in the Clinton campaign\u2019s project to paint Trump as a clandestine agent of the Kremlin? For now, we have to hope that Durham\u2019s final report will answer that question.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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